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October 8, 2009

Exploding Pyrex

A long, long time ago in a country we all know and love was a

company named Corning. They made Pryex dishes. The material they used

is called borosilicate glass. This stuff is indestructible.

But like everything else, the Bottom Liners had a great idea: sell

the technology to another company. The Chinese discovered that using

soda lime glass was almost as good as borosilicate glass and a lot

cheaper. Today, Wal-Mart is the largest distributor of Pryex products.

Corning not only sold the technology to a company called World Kitchen,

they also sold the rights to the original Pyrex logo. Seamless. The

consumer will never know.

Now it seems people are getting hurt using soda lime Pyrex. We were

lucky because the dish broke while the oven was closed and the damage

was limited to the oven cavity. Others have been less fortunate. Some

dishes explode when they are lifted from the heating rack in the oven

with devastating results. Some people are heavily scarred. World

Kitchen is in denial. They say that the dishes are another brand, not

theirs. Contrary to their denials the victims usually have more than

one of these dishes and the Pryex logo is clearly visible.

If you buy a Pryex dish beware. The label on the front says oven

safe, freezer safe, microwave safe. The instructions on the back tell

another story. You cannot move a soda lime Pyrex dish from the freezer

to the oven and expect it to survive. The fine print does on and on

about what you are not allowed to do with the Pyrex dish. The fine

print has prevented World Kitchen from being sued because they have

warned the consumer that their Pyrex dishes are junk from the get go.

And they are the same price as the original Corning dishes. What a

bunch of losers we all are for buying this

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